The stories of Ludmila Ulitskaya won a recognition on the native land and abroad long time ago, representing in a worthy manner modern Russian prose. In 1996 author received Medici's French premium, and in 2001 her novel Kazus Kukotskogo was recognized as the best literary work of year, and so premium Smirnoff-Booker for the first time felt into female hands. The story Sonechka, written to a genre of the family chronicle, is a history of love and separation, female happiness and bitter years of loneliness, pleasure of a unification and a pain of treason. And the main thing is that in a delicate and clever narration about destiny of the ordinary person we can read history of our country, social mode, history of the left century. Sonechka's statement is first attempt of a scenic embodiment of the story.